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Subject: Re: Death To Sub-Sub-Sub-Directories!
Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 03:20:58 -0400
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On 06/05/2011 11:56 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<iq1sjb$ru3$3@speranza.aioe.org>, Zapotec wrote:
>
>> Shells plus long path names = AAAARGH!
>
> Tab completion FTW!

Only one problem: the typical Java project directory structure means you 
get lots of names with long common substrings. So you get huge numbers 
of possible completions in a lot of cases.